NUR3026 EXAM #1 2026/2027 | NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
What is nursing? - ANS ✔✔American Nurses Association (ANA): "The protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations."
Florence Nightingale - ANS ✔✔The first nurse: nurse who really looked at nursing as a science and
wanted to add some professionalism into it
The first nurse who developed a nursing program... she really looked as what is it that we do, how we
affectively train other, and how can we spread of science amongst the population and others
Nightingale was put in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. She
spent many hours in the wards, and her night rounds giving personal care to the wounded established
her image as the "Lady with the Lamp."
Clara Barton - ANS ✔✔Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she
treated the wounded in the field.
Holistic Care - ANS ✔✔An integrated approach to health care that treats the "whole" person, not simply
symptoms and disease. Mind and body are integrated and inseparable.
We are looking at how those symptoms affect their day to day lives (what is the patient's reality)
Ex. Patient with pneumonia can't afford their antibiotic or doesn't have transportation to get an
antibiotic (advocate and help them)
Where do acute care nurses practice? - ANS ✔✔In a hospital setting
Where do non-acute care nurses practice? - ANS ✔✔Outside of a hospital setting
Staff Nurse (nurse clinician) - ANS ✔✔direct care, specific patients, assigned times... assigned times and
doing shifts (12 hour rotations (7am-7pm))
Nurse Manager - ANS ✔✔a registered nurse who assists the director of nursing in carrying out
administrative responsibilities and is in charge of one or more nursing units. They're apart of leadership
Nurse Administrator - ANS ✔✔Nurse who supervises the organization of nursing care to ensure overall
safety and quality
Organizational responsibility- Human resources
Nurse Researcher - ANS ✔✔Not in every hospital, magnet certified. research, validates with evidence
based data
Nurse educator - ANS ✔✔teaches, researches, directs, evaluates... giving direction and teaching staff
about upcoming medical equipment
,Community based home health nurse - ANS ✔✔works with at-risk populations, homeless,
parish/church-based
Long Term Care Nurses - ANS ✔✔Works with patient who have lost some or all ability to function. Not
just older people can be pediatrics as well.
Occupational Health and Industrial Nurses - ANS ✔✔Works with factories, corporations - ensure
productivity and OSHA standards
Home care Nurse - ANS ✔✔Homebound patients
Ambulatory care - ANS ✔✔practice in clinics or surgical centers, medical offices, walk-in clinics, retail
sites/pharmacies
Hospice and palliative care nurses - ANS ✔✔comfort and quality of life for the dying/terminally ill
PICO Question to direct critical analysis of the literature - ANS ✔✔P = Patient
I = Intervention
C = Comparison
O = Outcome
T = Time (optional)
HEALTH PROMOTION - ANS ✔✔
Define health - ANS ✔✔"A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO)
health promotion - ANS ✔✔•Activities that are useful to all individuals because they encourage optimal
function
•Helps individuals develop a state of physical, spiritual, and mental well-being
health protection - ANS ✔✔the motivation to avoid illness
Primary Health Protection - ANS ✔✔Activities that prevent or slow the onset of a disease
EX: eating healthy, immunizations, seat belts, no drinking
Secondary Health Protection - ANS ✔✔Activities that can detect diseases
EX: Self breast exams, health screenings, health assessment, pap smear
Tertiary Health Protection - ANS ✔✔Activities that SLOW the progression of a diagnosis
EX: adequate blood glucose for a patient with diabetes (the pt. already has the disease), medication,
treatment, rehab, surgery, chemotherapy, chronic pain management. IN RELATION TO DIAGNOSIS.
Pender's Health Promotion Model - ANS ✔✔•Utilizes both nursing and behavioral science in order to
evaluate individual motivation.
•Past experiences and perceptions affect responses and behaviors towards promotion
, Ex; this didnt happen last time, so what about this?
Wheel of Wellness - ANS ✔✔•Assesses 6 domains of wellness:
physical, mental, emotional, social/family, spiritual, occupation (POMESS)
•All domains must be working together
Transtheorectical model of change - ANS ✔✔Individual growth through a 6-step process
1. Pre-contemplation: how am I going to do this, can i do it?
2. Contemplation: making a commitment
3. Preparing: what is going to be the commitment, how am i gonna do it?
4. Action: I am here
5. Maintenance: fitting it in the schedule
6. Termination: keep going or completing the goal
Objectives Of Healthy People 2020 - ANS ✔✔Our health report card
-Address the effect of lifestyle on health
-Creates health improvement goals
-Eliminates health disparities
Healthy People 2030 includes 355 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and
research objectives.
Describe the nurses role in health promotion activities - ANS ✔✔Assessing, developing realistic plans
that are patient centered, role modeling, counseling, supporting, and advocating
Areas of focus:
-Physical exam & prior medical history
-Lifestyle and risk appraisal
-Life stress review
-HEALTH BELIEFS
-Nutrition
Screenings
PATIENT SAFETY AND ACTIVITY - ANS ✔✔
Safety Hazards - ANS ✔✔-falls
-firearms injuries
--Youth suicides; domestic violence, accidents
Prevention: firearms safety education for parents and children, proper locked storage, keep ammunition
separate
-choking
--Most common in elderly and children
-drowning
--Bathtub/Pool safety; pool gate with children
-poisoning/chemicals
--Child-proof, lock cabinets
Poison control hotline
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
What is nursing? - ANS ✔✔American Nurses Association (ANA): "The protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations."
Florence Nightingale - ANS ✔✔The first nurse: nurse who really looked at nursing as a science and
wanted to add some professionalism into it
The first nurse who developed a nursing program... she really looked as what is it that we do, how we
affectively train other, and how can we spread of science amongst the population and others
Nightingale was put in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. She
spent many hours in the wards, and her night rounds giving personal care to the wounded established
her image as the "Lady with the Lamp."
Clara Barton - ANS ✔✔Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she
treated the wounded in the field.
Holistic Care - ANS ✔✔An integrated approach to health care that treats the "whole" person, not simply
symptoms and disease. Mind and body are integrated and inseparable.
We are looking at how those symptoms affect their day to day lives (what is the patient's reality)
Ex. Patient with pneumonia can't afford their antibiotic or doesn't have transportation to get an
antibiotic (advocate and help them)
Where do acute care nurses practice? - ANS ✔✔In a hospital setting
Where do non-acute care nurses practice? - ANS ✔✔Outside of a hospital setting
Staff Nurse (nurse clinician) - ANS ✔✔direct care, specific patients, assigned times... assigned times and
doing shifts (12 hour rotations (7am-7pm))
Nurse Manager - ANS ✔✔a registered nurse who assists the director of nursing in carrying out
administrative responsibilities and is in charge of one or more nursing units. They're apart of leadership
Nurse Administrator - ANS ✔✔Nurse who supervises the organization of nursing care to ensure overall
safety and quality
Organizational responsibility- Human resources
Nurse Researcher - ANS ✔✔Not in every hospital, magnet certified. research, validates with evidence
based data
Nurse educator - ANS ✔✔teaches, researches, directs, evaluates... giving direction and teaching staff
about upcoming medical equipment
,Community based home health nurse - ANS ✔✔works with at-risk populations, homeless,
parish/church-based
Long Term Care Nurses - ANS ✔✔Works with patient who have lost some or all ability to function. Not
just older people can be pediatrics as well.
Occupational Health and Industrial Nurses - ANS ✔✔Works with factories, corporations - ensure
productivity and OSHA standards
Home care Nurse - ANS ✔✔Homebound patients
Ambulatory care - ANS ✔✔practice in clinics or surgical centers, medical offices, walk-in clinics, retail
sites/pharmacies
Hospice and palliative care nurses - ANS ✔✔comfort and quality of life for the dying/terminally ill
PICO Question to direct critical analysis of the literature - ANS ✔✔P = Patient
I = Intervention
C = Comparison
O = Outcome
T = Time (optional)
HEALTH PROMOTION - ANS ✔✔
Define health - ANS ✔✔"A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO)
health promotion - ANS ✔✔•Activities that are useful to all individuals because they encourage optimal
function
•Helps individuals develop a state of physical, spiritual, and mental well-being
health protection - ANS ✔✔the motivation to avoid illness
Primary Health Protection - ANS ✔✔Activities that prevent or slow the onset of a disease
EX: eating healthy, immunizations, seat belts, no drinking
Secondary Health Protection - ANS ✔✔Activities that can detect diseases
EX: Self breast exams, health screenings, health assessment, pap smear
Tertiary Health Protection - ANS ✔✔Activities that SLOW the progression of a diagnosis
EX: adequate blood glucose for a patient with diabetes (the pt. already has the disease), medication,
treatment, rehab, surgery, chemotherapy, chronic pain management. IN RELATION TO DIAGNOSIS.
Pender's Health Promotion Model - ANS ✔✔•Utilizes both nursing and behavioral science in order to
evaluate individual motivation.
•Past experiences and perceptions affect responses and behaviors towards promotion
, Ex; this didnt happen last time, so what about this?
Wheel of Wellness - ANS ✔✔•Assesses 6 domains of wellness:
physical, mental, emotional, social/family, spiritual, occupation (POMESS)
•All domains must be working together
Transtheorectical model of change - ANS ✔✔Individual growth through a 6-step process
1. Pre-contemplation: how am I going to do this, can i do it?
2. Contemplation: making a commitment
3. Preparing: what is going to be the commitment, how am i gonna do it?
4. Action: I am here
5. Maintenance: fitting it in the schedule
6. Termination: keep going or completing the goal
Objectives Of Healthy People 2020 - ANS ✔✔Our health report card
-Address the effect of lifestyle on health
-Creates health improvement goals
-Eliminates health disparities
Healthy People 2030 includes 355 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and
research objectives.
Describe the nurses role in health promotion activities - ANS ✔✔Assessing, developing realistic plans
that are patient centered, role modeling, counseling, supporting, and advocating
Areas of focus:
-Physical exam & prior medical history
-Lifestyle and risk appraisal
-Life stress review
-HEALTH BELIEFS
-Nutrition
Screenings
PATIENT SAFETY AND ACTIVITY - ANS ✔✔
Safety Hazards - ANS ✔✔-falls
-firearms injuries
--Youth suicides; domestic violence, accidents
Prevention: firearms safety education for parents and children, proper locked storage, keep ammunition
separate
-choking
--Most common in elderly and children
-drowning
--Bathtub/Pool safety; pool gate with children
-poisoning/chemicals
--Child-proof, lock cabinets
Poison control hotline
